Looks Unfamiliar: Tim Worthington – A Standard Issue Sweary Three-Year-Old

Pretty In Pink - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time Tim’s the guest, joining Mark Thompson for a chat about Secret Valley, Let My People Go-Go by The Rainmakers, The Grimleys, Whatever Happened To Harold Smith?, Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins, Britain’s Best Drives With Richard Wilson, Sarah Millican’s Support Group and the mysterious absence of Cherish by The Association from the Pretty In Pink soundtrack album. Along the way we’ll be debating whether Lottery Love Rats are worse than regular Love Rats, ‘remembering’ Kate Thornton ‘remembering’ Mark Gatiss ‘remembering’ Stuart Maconie ‘remembering’ David Quantick ‘remembering’ Andrew Collins ‘remembering’ falling in some mud, finding out what The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And His Friends crossed with Whose Line Is It Anyway? In America sounds like in musical form, sending BBC2 on a Samatha-Vipassanā retreat and revealing who would make the best Looks Unfamiliar guest out of Scarlett Johannson, Hayley Atwell and a Trumpton Puppet of Prince.

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The Grimleys (ITV/Granada. 1997-2001) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Secret Valley (ABC, 1980) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Let My People Go-Go by The Rainmakers (Mercury, 1986) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Whatever Happened To Harold Smith? (1999) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins (Ebury, 2003) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Britain's Best Drives With Richard Wilson (BBC Four, 2009) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Sarah Millican's Support Group (BBC Radio 4, 2010-11) - listen to Tim Worthington and Mark Thompson talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

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Further Listening

You can also find Tim as the guest on Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Only Way by Lisa Stansfield, The Brain, the Jackanory adaptation of Starstormers, a Public Information Film about boat safety, I Was Made To Love Magic by Nick Drake, Secrets From The School Underground, Skyman and Rubovia here, Stop-Go!, It’s A Shame by Kris Kross, Spider-Woman, I Wanted To See You To See If I Wanted You by Moose, The ITV Encyclopedia Of Adventure, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, the original version of Right Here by SWV and Radio Tip Top here, California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, Karen Gillan’s The Hoarding here, I Was Born On Christmas Day by Saint Etienne Featuring Tim Burgess, Ferrero Prestige, Bod’s Present, A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion by Jenny T. Colgan, Mariah Carey’s rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, Richard Herring’s Christmas Emergency Questions, Iron Man 3, Joe 90 Christmas Special The Unorthodox Shepherd and Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) by Max Headroom here, Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the BBC Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s Much Ado About Nothing, Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game here, comedy on BBC Radio 3 here, Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride here, Merry X-Mess by Rotterdam Termination Source, The Wassailing Song by Blur, BBC2’s A Perfect Christmas, Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings, Victor Lewis-Smith’s Bumper Christmas Cracker Cliché and The Hudsucker Proxy here, EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here, The Sound Spectrum here and Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops here. You can also find Tim on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about The Magic Roundabout here and The Banana Splits here.

You can also find Tim as the guest It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy here, The Defenders here, Ant-Man And The Wasp here, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here, The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special here and Wonder Man here.